Improvement in toy gymnasts



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. v

FREDERICK A. EANcKER, 0E NEw YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOY GVMNASTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 144,651, dated November18, 187,3 application filed September 27, 1873.

To all whom it may concern Be itknown thatl, FREDERICK A. BANCKER, ofthe city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Toy Gymnast, of which the following is a specificationFigure l is a front view of my improved toy gymnast. Fig. 2 is a sideview of the same; and Fig. 3 is a detail section taken through the linea: a', Fig. 1.

The invention will first be fully described,..

and then pointed out in the claim.

A is the gymnast, which is made of thick paper or pasteboard, andconsists of a body having legs and arms pivoted to it. The hands of thegymnast are placed parallel to each other at a little distance apart,and are attached to two cords, B, which are crossed upon each side ofthe said hands, and are attached to the ends of the bars C. The hands ofthe gymnast are kept at the proper distance apart by two short tubes, D,interposed between said hands, and through which the cords B pass. Onebar, B, is curved, and projects downward into a handle. The other bar,C, is also curved, and its lower end terminates in a curved thumbpiece,which enters and is pivoted in a groove in the upper part of the handleof the other bar, C.

By this construction, by pressing the thumbpiece so as to spread theupper ends ofthe bars C apart, the gymnast will be made to dance or toturn over, according to the amount of pressure applied to saidthumb-piece.

Having thus described my invention, l claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent-.

The gymnast A, having pivoted legs and arms, the former with end hook oneach foot, and the latter attached to cross-cords B B, in combinationwith the tubes I) and pivoted bars C C, as and for the purposedescribed.

FREDERICK A. BANGKER. Vitnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

